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Police, Oct. 23

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Christopher Yanoski, 31, Hazleton, was cited by city police for a violation of the Hazleton ordinance prohibiting drugs and drug paraphernalia after an incident in the 400 block of East Broad Street, Monday at about 7:19 p.m.

No one hurt in two-car crash

No injuries were reported in a two-car crash in Hazleton on Tuesday afternoon.

City police said a vehicle driven by a 16-year-old girl from Hazleton pulled out from a stop sign at 15th and Lincoln streets and hit a vehicle driven by Nicholas Bonner, 18, New Jersey. The 16-year-old and her 14-year-old female passenger, from Hazleton, were not injured and neither was Bonner and his passenger, Emma Bahrenburg, 18, New Jersey.

Both vehicles were towed. Hazleton fire and American Patient Transport Systems Inc., also responded.

Woman cited for unruly conduct toward officers

A 19-year-old McAdoo woman faces charges after she allegedly yelled obscenities at McAdoo police during a Sept. 29 traffic stop on South Kennedy Drive.

Jillian Bartholomew was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor and summary offenses for public drunkenness, underage drinking and an additional count of disorderly conduct. Arrest papers state Bartholomew was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by police at about 12:49 a.m. and began yelling at police, refused to submit to a breath test but did admit to drinking at her home earlier. Court papers state she was told several times to "relax" while she was yelling but continued to yell at police.

Woman charged for credit fraud

Charges were filed against a 21-year-old Tamaqua woman after a case of credit fraud was reported to borough police.

Desiree Cramer was charged with two counts each of access device fraud and receiving stolen property and one count of theft.

Cramer was charged after the victim reported to police that someone used her credit card twice Sept. 9, without her permission, arrest papers state.

Amanda L. Dibonifazio was charged with disorderly conduct and open lewdness, misdemeanors and summary offenses for public drunkenness and an additional count of disorderly conduct.

Arrest papers state officers were in the emergency room at about 1:37 a.m. when they saw a Dibonifazio laying in a hospital bed yelling and screaming profanity at hospital staff. Officers told her to calm down and stop yelling and she complied but later began to yell again, court papers state. Police wrote that she also kicked a feces covered bed pan onto the floor and ripped out her IV and got out of bed. Dibonifazio then charged a nurse attempting to stop her and two officers grabbed Dibonifazio by the wrists, arrest papers state.

Dibonifazio, court papers state, continued to scream and was pulling from officers as they escorted her back to her bed and as she did that, blood was pouring from where her IV was. Police said they told her numerous times to stop yelling and Dibonifazio "forced" herself to urinate and defecate on the floor in the middle of the emergency room in full view of patients and staff. She was placed in a secure room until she could calm down, arrest papers state.

Woman charged for fraudulent car registration

Lynne Britton, 47, Barnesville, was charged by Rush Township police with fraudulent or altered inspection and driving with a suspended license after police stopped her in a vehicle Aug. 30 in the area of Mahanoy Avenue, near the township police station, arrest papers state. Court papers state she was stopped for a cracked driver's side tail light and police later found her license was suspended and her inspection sticker read a date of 4-13 on the back but in the front showed a date of 9-13.

- Megan A. Blackburn, Freeland, harassment by state police at Hazleton after an Aug. 4 offense.

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